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Chapter Eighteen (b): Webmail
Summary of Chapter: How to allow access to Webmail from a PC
client with a fixed IP Address How to allow access to Webmail from
a PC client without a fixed IP Address How to use Webmail
What you need: Knowledge of admin user account and valid
password for your NetPilot. Knowledge of a user/s account and
password For the first section of the document you need a fixed IP
Address.
Software Revision Required: Applicable to software revision
4.1.4 > NetPilots
Webmail provides a ‘hotmail’ like facility on all current
NetPilots. It is based on Squirrel Mail an open source package. It
is not meant to replace the standard mail interface using clients
such as Outlook or Outlook Express, but rather offer an alternative
especially for remote access applications where perhaps a small
number of remote sales or support people need to collect their
email, which is sitting on a central site NetPilot. Allowing Access
(Fixed):
Log on to the NetPilot as shown in Chapter One (b). Select the
‘Security’ button on the left-hand side of the screen, then the
‘Firewall
Overview’ button at the top of the screen, and then select the
‘Show all Firewalls’ link. (Both of the buttons and link are
highlighted below)
You will be presented with the screen below:
Select ‘Controlled’ from the left hand column in the table, as
highlighted above.
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In the screen below, select the ‘Add’ button as highlighted:
In the next screen (shown below) enter in the following
details:
‘Name’: Enter a name or phrase for the ‘Address Association’.
This must not contain any special characters or space.
‘Address’: enter the IP Address that you use to access the
Internet (see Tip below).
‘Address mask’: Select the appropriate mask from the drop down
list.
‘Trust Group’: Leave this as ‘Controlled’ (unless you want to
enter it into another group within the Firewall).
Select ‘OK’ and ‘OK’ again to confirm.
To find out the IP Address you need, go on to the computer that
you will be using Webmail from and enter the following URL Address
http://www.netpilot.com/ip and this will show you the IP Address
you will need to enter above.
You will come back to the ‘Firewall Overview’ screen, which is
shown below. Select ‘Controlled/Local’ as highlighted below:
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In the screen below, select ‘accept’ from the ‘secure web admin’
drop down list, as highlighted.
Select ‘OK’ and ‘OK’ again to confirm. Using Webmail (Not
fixed):
If you need to use Webmail, and you don’t know the Address which
the user will be coming from, off the Internet, please follow the
below instructions.
Log on to the NetPilot as shown in Chapter One (b). Select the
‘Security’ button on the left-hand side of the screen, then the
‘Firewall
Overview’ button at the top of the screen, and then select the
‘Internet/Local’ link in the firewall table. (Both of the buttons
and link are highlighted below)
You will be presented with the screen below, select ‘accept’
from the ‘secure web admin’ drop down list (as highlighted):
Select ‘OK’ and ‘OK’ again to confirm.
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Using Webmail: Open up a new Web Browser and enter the following
URL address:
https://IPAddressorDomainName/Webmail
The ‘IPAddress’ is the ‘LAN 2’ address of your NetPilot. You
will see the below screen, and it will prompt you for your username
and password.
(These are the same as what you would enter into the NetPilot
for access).
Once you have entered your details and selected the ‘Login’
button, you will be presented
with a similar screen, which is shown below:
On the above page the user can compose, send and receive mail in
the classic hotmail
fashion. Emails are stored on the NetPilot. So please take
caution to not fill the NetPilot’s disk with large amounts of
email. Detailed help is available on-line. A hardcopy version of
this help is the second PDF file within this Sub-Chapter on
SmartStore.
